Frank Dikötter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An internationally renowned historian presents a history of China from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 to the present, including recovery from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution and unprecedented four-decade economic transformation."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be...
